Heather Thorne, Director, ICT Innovation, AppLab

Heather leads the AppLab Indonesia program, the Community Knowledge Worker Initiative in Uganda, and advises on other Uganda-based ICT-Innovation programs. Prior to Grameen, Heather spent nearly 6 years at Microsoft in strategy, product management, and operational leadership roles, including work focused on emerging markets consumers, in the Windows, Microsoft Research and Mobile divisions. Prior to Microsoft, she was an associate with McKinsey & Company, started her own outdoor gear company, worked in Russia for a Moscow-based investment bank, and for NASA on the US-Russian space program. She received BA degrees in Russian Language and Political Science from University of Washington, and an MBA from Wharton.